Friday evening, discovered a few more crocuses had appeared, and hadn't been found by the bunnies quite yet...and the first lungwort blooms.

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While I have seen flocks of robins in the vacant field at the end of the block, I've yet to see any make it to my yard. But, as I was downloading my vacation pics just now, I had my camera handy to catch a happy cardinal chirping away at the top of the maple tree. (And Elliot had to see what I was up to.)


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Realized I have seen no sign of the 'fall crocuses' that I planted a year or so ago, but the 'water lily' one is doing nicely:

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Think I'll still get blooms from this one that I always over-winter in the garage:

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Spotted a new flower in the garden over the weekend. Afraid picture quality isn't the best, given the cloudy evening - but tried to give one view of the plant height and leaves, and a closer look at the flower.

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Apparently, I threw all the morning glory seeds I had from past years into various planters this year. Today a striped one caught my eye in the maple tree and some giant blue ones on the front porch.

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Aldi discount tomato still doing nicely:

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The beauty of a relatively nice morning combining with the holiday day off: managed to get a few more shots of my morning glories a la maple tree, and a volunteer vine that must have re-seeded from last year's porch planter...showing up along the steps and the peony plant.

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Having seen beautiful pictures of hanging baskets on porches full of draping morning glories, and even the in-person version at mitty_the_kitty's house one year, I decided to add a few seeds to my planters this year. But, my last shepherd's hook was felled by a heavy wind/rain storm this spring, and so I used my maple tree as the spot to hang the baskets.

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